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3Changes between versions 0.4b27 and 0.4b28 (released ?????????????????)
4=======================================================================
5
61. Fixed a bug in the QFA feature which could have caused
7 a bad tape positionning on restore (causing extra delays in
8 restore). Credits go to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
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102. Added a small note in the dump man page specifying that
11 there should be no white space between the option letter and
12 the -j or -z parameter, thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com>
13
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143. Made restore work with older versions of the readline library,
15 by checking in configure for several extended symbols. Restore
16 can now be compiled with a readline as old as the 2.0 release
17 (though it may be a good idea to upgrade it to a more recent
18 version...). Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
19 reporting the build failures.
20
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214. Fixed a performance problem with the QFA file creation in
22 dump, which made unnecessary seeks on the tape slowing down
23 the dump. Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
24 reporting this issue.
25
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26Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released February 15, 2002)
27=======================================================================
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291. Fixed behaviour of dump when exceeding resource limits
30 (SIGXFSZ treatment).
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322. Added the -L flag to restore to allow the user to specify a
33 maximal allowed number of miscompares when using restore
34 with the -C option to check the backup.
35
363. Detailed the manual entry for the -N option of restore.
37
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384. Added the -a flag to restore to make able doing unattended
39 restores in -i or -x mode (automatically walks through the
40 multiple dump volumes).
41
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425. Extended the QFA mode to work with local files and/or
43 remote tapes and files. This way, restore can know in advance
44 the tape number and the offset for the inodes to extract and
45 can minimize the extraction time by seeking directly to the
46 good tape/offset.
47
486. Added the -A <archive> option to both dump and restore,
49 which makes dump to archive a dump table-of-contents in
50 the specified file to be used by restore to determine
51 whether a file is in the dump file that is being restored.
52 (the archive file syntax is also compatible with the
53 Solaris ufsdump generated one).
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557. Small fix in restore making it able to read some (broken ?)
56 Solaris ufsdump tapes.
57
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588. Fixed dump to correctly recognise the root filesystem when using
59 ext2 disk labels (LABEL=/). Thanks to John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu>
60 for reporting this bug.
61
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629. Added the -P <file> option to restore to create a
63 Quick File Access file from an already made dump. Patch
64 contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
65
6610. Made restore compile and run on Solaris, making it a
67 possible replacement for the standard ufsrestore. Port was
68 contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
69
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70Changes between versions 0.4b25 and 0.4b26 (released January 7, 2002)
71=====================================================================
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731. Added a set of backup scripts from Eugenio Diaz
74 <getnito@yahoo.com> in the examples section. It features
75 automatic (cron based) full and incremental dumping of
76 several filesystems on a separate filesystem.
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782. Fixed a off-by-one miscalculation which disabled dumping
79 a one letter subdirectory. Thanks to Chris Siebenmann
80 <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
81
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823. Fixed several restore bugs occuring when trying to
83 restore some missing files on the tape. Thanks to Chris
84 Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for reporting the bug.
85
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864. Fixed --with-ldopts configure argument passing, installing from
87 a separate object directory, makefile cleanups contributed
88 by <splite@purdue.edu>.
89
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905. Fix a bug which could caused, in some conditions, the highest
91 number inode of a filesystem, to not be dumped. Many thanks
92 to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for helping me
93 chase this bug.
94
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95Changes between versions 0.4b24 and 0.4b25 (released November 17, 2001)
96=======================================================================
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981. Added a mini howto from Patrick Walsh in the examples
99 directory.
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1012. Minor man pages syntax corrections. Thanks to
102 Chris Danis <screechco@home.com> for reporting the bugs.
103
1043. Added a script from David B. Peterson <dave@toppledwagon.com>
105 to the examples section. It features dumping several
106 filesystems to a remote tape drive upon ssh.
107
1084. Added a patch provided by Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
109 which allows BRADEMAX (number of read errors tolerated by
110 dump) to be adjusted using the -I option.
111
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1125. Fixed a bug which disabled doing "restore -C -f -". Thanks
113 to Clemens Stiglechner <a9401816@unet.univie.ac.at> for the
114 patch.
115
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1166. Add the -l option to restore to specify if, when doing a
117 remote restore, the file used to access the backup is a
118 regular file (the defaults being a tape drive). Restore needs
119 to know this information when reading a remote compressed
120 dump. Previously, this information was autodetected, but
121 the autodetection code fails (with ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl
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122 for device) when using a non Linux remote box. Thanks to
123 many users and especially to Eros Albertazzi
124 <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting this.
125
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1267. Found a workaroung for the dump deadlock problem (3 childs
127 stuck in pause(), father in read()). The workaround seems
128 to work for me and several beta-testers. If it doesn't work
129 for you, please report back.
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130
1318. Updated the RPM spec file (BuildPrereq, URL etc).
132
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133Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released September 12, 2001)
134========================================================================
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1361. Fixed the permissions of a newly created QFA file by dump.
137
1382. Cleaned up the source of dump (the external variables
139 definition was a complete mess, making possible to have
140 objects overlap).
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1423. Fixed restore to use the full tape volume path when doing
143 a compare (since it changes the working directory to the
144 filesystem being compared in the process).
145
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1464. Added the -q option to dump which makes dump abort
147 whenever it needs operator attention. It should be
148 easier to use dump in scripts with this option.
149
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1505. Detect the use of incompatible options to dump and
151 refuse them (like -a and -B options together).
152
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1536. Added bzip2 compression to dump/restore (use option -j level
154 to select it). Note that you will need a restore version
155 >= 0.4b24 in order to restore a bzip2 compressed dump.
156 The same warning as for the zlib compression applies:
157 the tape format of a bzip2 dump is not compatible with the
158 original BSD tape format.
159
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1607. Fixed a overflow problem in dump corrupting the dump when
161 very large files were encountered. Thanks to Vladimir Nadvornik
162 for the bug report.
163
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1648. Added a ioctl(BLKFLSBUF) in dump which should flush the
165 kernel buffer/page cache before starting the dump, helping
166 a bit those who use dump on mounted filesystems. Thanks to
167 John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu> and to Theodore T'so <tytso@mit.edu>
168 for this suggestion.
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1709. Updated the RPM spec file following the RedHat changes
171 (dynamically linked binaries now in /usr/sbin etc).
172
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17310. Added a patch from Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
174 which enables restore to recognise multi volume compressed dumps
175 done on CD. Included his scripts for dump (which pipe the dump
176 output directly into cdrecord) and restore. There is now
177 possible to to backups to CD on the fly!
178
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179Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released July 20, 2001)
180===================================================================
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1821. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
183 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
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1852. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
186 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
187
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1883. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
189 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
190 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
191 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
192
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1934. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
194 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
195 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
196
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1975. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
198 previous version.
199
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2006. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
201 _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
202 Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
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203 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>. Note however that, since
204 it is impossible to predict the size of the compressed
205 data before doing the compression, the -B limit is a bit
206 conservative.
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2087. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
209 the next volume in restore.
210
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2118. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
212 user to specify a script which will be launched at the
213 beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
214 tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
215 script parameters and return codes.
216
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2179. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke
218 <uwe@ugsoft.de>, and some recommendations for QFA uses in
219 the man pages.
220
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22110. Fixed the multivolume restoring where making a mistake
222 to the 'Mount next tape' prompt caused several blocks to
223 be lost.
224
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22511. Enhanced the -e option of dump to take as a parameter a
226 comma separated list of inode numbers.
227
22812. Added the -E option to dump which specify a file containing
229 inode numbers to exclude from the dump.
230
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23113. Fixed the compressed multi-volume dump + restore.
232
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233Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
234==================================================================
fa7fb417 235
90aa4874 2361. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
fa7fb417 237 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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2392. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
240 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
241 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
242 bug and providing a patch.
243
a01aa5e8 2443. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
401a4d13 245 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
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247 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
248 drives supporting variable block size.
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250 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
251 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
252 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
253
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2544. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
255 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
256 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
257 it upstream.
258
43460f04 2595. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
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260 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
261 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
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2636. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
264 are now based on the configure parameters.
265
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2667. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
267 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
268 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
269 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
270 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
271 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
272 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
273 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
274
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2758. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
276 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
277 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
278
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2799. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
280 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
281 correctly).
282
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28310. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
284 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
285 process per tape).
286
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28711. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
288 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
289 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
290 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
291
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292Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
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2951. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
296 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
297 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
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2992. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
300 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
301 who reported this stupid error.
302
a1158276 3033. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
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304 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
305 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
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3074. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
308 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
309 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
310 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
311 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
312 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
313
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3145. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
315 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
316 for the patch.
317
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3186. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
319 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
320 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
321 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
322 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
323 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
324 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
325
7ae7e2fd 3267. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
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327 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
328 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
329 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
330 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
331 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
332 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
333 useful thoughts.
334
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3358. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
336 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
337 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
338 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
339 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
340
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341Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
342=======================================================================
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3441. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
345 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
346 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
347 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
348 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
349 a fix.
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3512. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
352 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
353 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
354 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
355 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
356
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3573. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
358 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
359 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
360 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
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3624. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
363 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
364 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
365 when multiple -e options are used.
366
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3675. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
368 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
369 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
370 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
371
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3726. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
373 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
374
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3757. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
376 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
377
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3788. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
379 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
380 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
381
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3829. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
383 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
384 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
385 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
386
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38710. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
388 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
389 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
390 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
391
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39211. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
393 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
394 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
395 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
396
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397Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
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4001. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
401 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
402 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
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4042. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
405
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4063. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
407 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
408 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
409 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
410
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4114. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
412 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
413 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
414 for reporting the bug.
415
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4165. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
417 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
418 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
419 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
420
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4216. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
422 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
423 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
424 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
425 reporting the bug.
426
3e815572 4277. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
1d568d1b 428 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
1099d48c 429 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
1d568d1b 430
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4318. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
432 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
433 library in order to compile the readline support.
434
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4359. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
436 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
437 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
438 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
439 for providing the patch.
440
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441Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
442===================================================================
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4441. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
445 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
446 the bug.
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4482. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
449 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
450 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
451 for the bug report.
452
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4533. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
454 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
455 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
456 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
457 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
458 the bugs to me.
459
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4604. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
461 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
462 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
463 to make network backups should read first the man page
464 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
465
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4665. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
467 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
468 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
469 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
470
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473
4741. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
49023a9d 475 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
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476 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
477
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478 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
479 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
480 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
481 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
482 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
483
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4842. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
485 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
486 the patch.
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4883. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
489 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
490 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
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491 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
492 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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d8574d45 4944. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
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a110deb5 4965. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
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497 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
498 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
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501 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
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502 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
503 suggestion.
504
5057. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
506 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
507 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
508 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
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5131. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
514 output of dump.
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5162. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
517 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
518 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
519 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
520 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
521 character at the end).
522
5233. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
524 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
525 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
526
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5274. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
528 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
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529 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
530 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
531 patch.
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534 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
535
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5366. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
537 broken it in 0.4b15).
538
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539Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
540===================================================================
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541
5421. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
543 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
d6f78b13 544
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5452. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
546 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
547 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
548 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
549 who forwarded me his mail).
550
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5513. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
552 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
553 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
554 pager etc.).
555
5564. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
557 I made in 0.4b14.
558
5595. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
560 in both dump and restore.
561
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562Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
563=======================================================================
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564
5651. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
566 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
567 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
568 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
569 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
570 bug and submitting the patch.
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5722. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
573 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
574 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
575 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
576
5773. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
578 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
579
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5804. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
581 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
582
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5835. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
584 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
585
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5866. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
587 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
588 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
589
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5907. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
591 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
592 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
593 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
594 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
595 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
596 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
597 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
598 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
599 helping me test the fix.
600
6018. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
602 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
603 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
604 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
605
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606Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
607======================================================================
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608
6091. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
610 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
611
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6122. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
613 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
614 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
615
8d957ae7 6163. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
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617 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
618 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
619 helping me find this bug.
620
8d957ae7 6214. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
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622 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
623 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
624
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6255. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
626 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
627
2f9a0c5c 628Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
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630
6311. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
632 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
2ed89fda 633
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6342. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
635 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
636 submitting the patch.
637
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6383. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
639 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
640 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
641
6424. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
643 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
644 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
645
6465. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
647 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
648 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
649 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
650
6516. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
652 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
653 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
654 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
655 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
656
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6577. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
658 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
659 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
660 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
661 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
662
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664======================================================================
665
6661. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
5c1faba5 667
144a6db1 6682. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
5c729713 669 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
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670 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
671 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
672
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6733. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
674 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
675 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
676 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
677 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
678 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
679 asking to enter a new tape each time.
680
7fbb9b02 6814. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
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682 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
683 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
7fbb9b02 684
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685Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
686======================================================================
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687
6881. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
689 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
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690 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
691 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
692 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
693 glitches.
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6952. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
696 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
697 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
698 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
699
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7003. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
701 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
702 contents.
703
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7044. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
705 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
706 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
707 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
708 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
709 it is dumped (it should not).
710
7115. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
712 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
713
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714Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
715====================================================================
716
7171. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
718 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
719 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
720 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
721 this and providing the patch.
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723Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
724====================================================================
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7261. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
727 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
728
7292. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
730 easily verify the version he is using.
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7323. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
733 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
734 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
735
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7364. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
737 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
738 for submitting the bug report.
739
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7405. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
741 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
742
7436. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
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744 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
745 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
746 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
747
f34aca37 7487. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
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749 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
750 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
751 this should work.
752
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753Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
754===================================================================
755
7561. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
757 was not compiled in.
758
7592. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
760 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
761
7623. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
763 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
764 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
765 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
766 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
767
7684. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
769 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
770
7715. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
772 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
773 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
774
7756. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
776
7777. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
778 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
779 dump).
780
7818. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
782 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
783 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
784 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
785 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
786 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
787
7889. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
789 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
790 /etc/dumpdates.
791
79210. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
793 included the current date/version in man pages.
794
79511. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
796 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
797 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
798 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
799 the results canceled each other...
800
801Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
802===================================================================
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8041. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
805
806 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
807 isn't specified.
808 - several fixes in the man pages.
809 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
810 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
811 - buffer overruns.
812 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
813 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
814 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
815 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
816
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8172. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
818 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
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8203. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
821
8224. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
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823 routines (only if available).
824
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8255. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
826 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
827
828Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
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8311. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
832 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
833 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
834 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
835 RMT etc.).
836
8372. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
838
8393. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
840 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
841 when comparing).
842
8434. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
844 This works for me, needs further testing.
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847====================================================================
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848
8491. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
850 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
851
852Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
853========================================
854
8551. Use realpath() if available
856
8572. Report statistics
858
859Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
860========================================
861
8621. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
863 the patch)
864
8652. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
866
8673. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
868
869Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
870======================================
871
8721. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
873
8742. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
875
8763. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
877
8784. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
879 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
880
8815. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
882 distribution's one) to use autoconf
883
8846. Fixed a few minor bugs
885
886Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
887======================================
888
8891. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
890
8912. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
892
8933. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
894 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
895
8964. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
897 not restored.
898
8995. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
900
9016. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
902 correctly files ending by a hole.
903
904Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
905======================================
906
9071. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
908 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
909
910Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
911======================================
912
9131. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
914
9152. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
916
917Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
918======================================
919
9201. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
921
922Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
923======================================
924
9251. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
926
9272. Enabled optimization again.
928
929Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
930=====================================
931
9321. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
933
934Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
935====================================
936
9371. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
938 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
939 use the mntent functions).
940
9412. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
942 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
943 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
944 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
945 0.2 :-(
946
9473. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
948 filesystems like the BSD version.
949
9504. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
951 than 2 GB.
952
953Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
954====================================
955
9561. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
957
9582. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
959
9603. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
961 incremental backups.
962
9634. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.